Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inner Alliance. At 60, Zhukov has already risen higher than any other professional officer of the world's most powerful army. The Soviet Union's most authentic popular hero, he is the general who saved Moscow, led the counteroffensive that relieved Stalingrad, conquered Berlin and briefly ruled it jointly with his U.S. opposite number, General Dwight Eisenhower. But Stalin was jealous of his popularity, banished him to provincial posts for six years. Within 24 hours after the tyrant's death, Zhukov was called back to Moscow...
Getting Tito's Goat. Jovial and blunt, Zhukov was the man in the top Soviet hierarchy that Westerners liked best; even Ike Eisenhower spoke of him as a friend. In the Soviet Union he was popular beyond a dictator's dreams. Shortly after his elevation to the Presidium, he went off to Leningrad, received a popular ovation rarely seen in the Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted trio as "monsters . . . who have lost their right to be ministers and even members of our great Communist Party" -stronger language than Khrushchev himself had used. Soon...
...last July, came crashing to an end in Guatemala last week. An election staged by Castillo's successors to keep the liberator's Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.) in office turned out to have been so patently rigged that not even the government tried to uphold it. Harnessing popular anger over the fraud, the opposition candidate, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 62, made a tumultuous bid to take power...
...kids not in a hula mood. Rock 'n' roll faltered slightly when ballads (Love Letters in the Sand, Tammy) began catching on again, and a few of the U.S.'s disk jockeys report that ballads are continuing to cut into rock 'n' roll popularity. From staid Boston, WBZ's Bill Marlowe states flatly that "Rock 'n' roll has had it. The teen-agers are beginning to look to better music." But in Los Angeles the craze is just as strong as ever, and in Atlanta, jukebox operators and record shop proprietors...
When Lutherans of the Missouri Synod (5,000 churches, 2,000,000 members) decided to get into TV five years ago, controversy raged among the ministers over the best way to "merchandise" Christianity. The Rev. Herman W. Gockel, a religious counselor-by-mail for radio's popular Lutheran Hour, quoted St. Mark, who said that Jesus always drew on drama in His preachings: "Without a parable spake He not unto them." Since then, the Lutherans have produced more than 150 half-hour parables, distributed free weekly for showing on some 280 TV stations across the U.S. (sufficient to reach...